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Below is a wrap-up of all the big stories filed by the Business Journals across Texas in the last 24 hours.
o Wells Fargo CEO pulls in $19.8 million payday
AUSTIN — Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf earned $19.8 million last year, according to the bank’s proxy statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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o Texas to lose women’s health funds
AUSTIN — The Texas Medicaid Women’s Health Program will lose $29.8 million from the federal government as a result of a new state law that pulls Medicaid funding for clinics that provide abortions.
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o State Fair adds Fried Girl Scout cookies to the menu
DALLAS — The Girl Scouts will be serving deep-fried Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos and Tagalongs at the Texas State Fair. The Girl Scouts are celebrating their 100th anniversary.
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o American Airlines
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open to merger, CEO says
DALLAS — American Airlines’ parent company is open to merging with another airline at some point, CEO Tom Horton said. AMR Corp.
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filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last November.
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o Port of Houston sees a future in Asian partnerships
HOUSTON — Port of Houston officials have their sights set on the Far East as the port celebrated the March 15 US-Korea trade agreement.
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o Carrizo to sell Barnett Shale properties
HOUSTON — Carrizo Oil Gas Inc. will sell a portion of its properties in the Barnett Shale to Atlas Resource Partners LP for $190 million.
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Thoreaus Journals Help Scientists Track Climate Change
The 19th-century writers records show that some flowers are now blooming more than a week earlier than they did in his lifetime.
By Rachael Levy
| Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at 5:59 PM ET
2:33 pm, March 16, 2012–The online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education is now available on a University-wide basis including remote access, the University of Delaware Library has announced.
The Chronicle is accessible from the Library website by going to Electronic Journals at http://www.lib.udel.edu/ej/ and searching the title, Chronicle of Higher Education. From on campus, the direct link is [chronicle.com]. The Chronicle also can be accessed online from home or from anywhere in the world after logging in to the campus network. The Chronicle is a licensed resource for use only by faculty, students and staff of the University of Delaware. Walk-in access is available to public users in the Morris Library.
Soldan forward Randy Holmes chases down a loose ball during his teams game against Maplewood at Soldan in January 2012. (Rick Graefe | Suburban Journals)
Today an exciting exhibit opens at the Brooklyn Museum devoted to the early work of Keith Haring.
Haring was an essential and influential pop artist whose work was inspired by the graffiti he spotted in New York. He died in 1990, at the peak of his career, of AIDS-related complications.
In celebration of the exhibit, the Keith Haring Foundation will post one page from Harings journals each day during the show. (It lasts through July 8.) Head to http://keithharing.tumblr.com to peek inside the mind of a fantastic artist.
Below is a wrap-up of all the big stories filed by the Business Journals across Texas in the last 24 hours.
o CEO turnover dips slightly, remains high
AUSTIN — A report from outplacement firm Challenger Gray Christmas
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showed that CEO turnover was down in February slightly from January.
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o Dell buys SonicWALL
AUSTIN — Dell Inc.
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has agreed to buy SonicWALL Inc.
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, a California-based developer of network security and data protection. Financial terms of acquisition were not disclosed.
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o Investor puts Turtle Creek Village on market
DALLAS — Turtle Creek Village — a retail and two-building office complex at 3838 Oak Lawn Ave. — has been put on the market shortly after being acquired earlier this year.
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o Humphreys Partners opens office in Seattle
DALLAS — Humphreys Partners Architects LP
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, a firm that specializes in multifamily projects, is opening the company’s eighth US office. The office will be located in Seattle.
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o Murphy Oil chairman dead at age 72
HOUSTON — Murphy Oil Corp.
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Chairman William Nolan Jr. has passed away following a brief illness. The company’s largest subsidiary is in Houston.
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o United exec discusses merger progress
HOUSTON — United Continental Holdings Executive Vice President Jim Compton said in an interview with the Houston Business Journal
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that the integration between United and Continental is about halfway through the process.
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GEORGETOWN, Colorado Richard Rossi Moreau was suffering from medication-induced delirium the night he shot four people in the Sandbar, a clinical psychologist testified Thursday at Moreaus murder trial.
It was a perfect storm, said Dr. Earnest Boswell, a clinical psychologist with the Veterans Administration counseling center, where he helps work with returning soldiers as they return to civilian life.
As that November night went on, Moreaus consciousness became clouded and fragmented, stemming from a combination of medication, previous delirium a few days before and alcohol, Boswell said
Then he went to the Sandbar, Boswell said.
Boswell interviewed Moreau for three and a half hours in the Eagle County jail, examined other reports, journals, police reports and other information. He was testifying as an expert witness for the defense.
I reached the conclusion that he has PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), Boswell said.
PTSD requires a traumatic event, and Moreaus was his Vietnam experience, Boswell said.
Moreau does not reach the level of insanity, and his diagnosis agrees with every other he has seen about Moreau, Boswell said. To be considered insane, someone has to be unable to determine right from wrong, even after an action. In police interviews, Moreau clearly said something terrible had happened, and that he had been part of it, Boswell said.
Boswell said Moreaus PTSD is late-onset and chronic, becoming more pronounced in the past few years. Moreau also suffers from alcohol dependence, a substance abuse problem and was on a program of self-medication, Boswell said, calling the problems psychotic and hallucinogenic in nature.
Today was the last day of testimony in the Georgetown murder trial. Closing arguments are expected today.
As the tech world gets ready
for Apples launch of the iPad 3, a national study of small and midsize
business (SMB) owners reveals how critical the iPad and other mobile devices
have become to this hardworking market segment. The Business Journals survey
shows that iPad use has nearly quadrupled among SMBs over the past year,
growing from 9 percent in 2010 to 34 percent in 2011, indicating that the iPad
is the fastest-growing technology among SMBs.
In addition, since the
iPads launch in April 2010, familiarity with the product has reached
incredibly high levels in its less than two-year life span, with 75 percent of
SMB owners reporting now being very or somewhat familiar with the
device, according to the Business Journals study.
Godfrey Phillips, vice
president of research at The Business Journals, said that the growth of the
iPad is part of a new phenomenon overtaking the SMB market. Our research
has shown that for SMB owners, productivity and efficiency, which used to be
the central benefits of technology, are now declining in importance compared to
accessibility, he explained. Now, its crucial that business owners have
access to their business information and data, anytime and anywhere. The iPad,
as well as smartphones and cloud computing, are all part of this new trend and
are experiencing significant growth as a result of that need.
Similarly, the 2012 ATamp;T Small Business Technology Poll shows that small
businesses continue to ratchet up their use of emerging wireless solutions,
including tablet computers, 4G devices and GPS navigation mobile apps. Despite
being a relatively new technology, approximately two-thirds (67 percent) of
small businesses surveyed indicate that they use tablet computers, up from 57
percent a year ago, according to the recent ATamp;T study.
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shows that iPad users in the SMB community34 percentare tech-savvy and financially
successful. In addition to being highly educated (72 percent have a college
education), this segments annual household income averages $176,000. Their
companies are also well-established, having existed for an average of 28 years
and averaging $9.2 million in annual sales.
The full Business Journals study
will be available March 31. The research findings were based on a survey of a
nationally representative sample of over 1,400 business owners, CEOs and
presidents of companies with five to 499 employees.
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This is the ccover of the first issue of Nature Conservation. Credit: Pensoft Publishers
Nature Conservation is a new-generation open-access journal launched by Pensoft Publishers. Its platform is comprising both innovative technologies and a routine medium for publication of data related to the vast area of basic and applied research in conservation of nature. Nature Conservation builds upon the success of its sister journals ZooKeys, PhytoKeys, BioRisk, and NeoBiota, and is supported by an editorial team of highly renowned specialists in the field. The composition of papers in the inaugural issue largely reflects the focus and scope of the new journal, which are also outlined in the opening Editorial paper.
The journal Nature Conservation was established within the framework of the European Unions Framework Program 7 large-integrated project SCALES: Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales.
Nature Conservation is dedicated to provide a venue for those ecologists and conservationists who are keen to see their works published in a way better than ever, through innovative publishing technologies, as well as through widest possible, barrier-free distribution of works at no charge to the reader, said the Editor-in-Chief Dr. Klaus Henle, from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, Germany.
Like the rest of Pensofts journals, Nature Conservation will be published in four different formats: (1) high-resolution, full-color print version; (2) PDF, identical to the printed version; (3) HTML version on the journals website, in order to provide links to external resources and semantic enhancements for published texts and interactive reading; (4) XML version, compatible with PubMedCentral archiving, thus providing a machine-readable copy to facilitate future data mining. Neither restrictions nor charges are imposed on the use of color illustrations for all formats, and submission of multimedia is encouraged.
Nature Conservation will advance beyond current standards in many aspects, for instance by the implementation of cutting-edge, semantic Web tools, but also in the scope of papers it will consider. Alongside with conventional papers, we established the category of Applied Conservation Papers that would bring to life the precious knowledge hidden in project reports, protected areas inventories, Natura 2000 studies and so on., added Prof. Lyubomir Penev of Pensoft Publishers in Sofia, Bulgaria, the managing editor of the new journal.
The journal aims particularly at facilitating better interaction between scientists and practitioners. A major goal of Nature Conservation is to support synergistic interactions among scientists, policy-makers, and managers. The journal will also provide opportunities and focus on open data publishing of qualitative biodiversity and environmental datasets.
It is exciting to see the launch of Nature Conservation at a time of radical change in publishing towards opening up access to data and results obtained from public funding. The focus on interdisciplinary studies is welcome, and the explicit goal of blending biology and ecology with the humanities is long overdue.The conservation of nature has always been a political and social issue. I have no doubt that this new journal will quickly find its place in the international conservation community. commented Prof Chris Margules from James Cook University, Australia, member of the editorial team of Nature Conservation.
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EAU CLAIRE (AP) – Every dress, every meal, every movie that came to town, every gallon of gasoline and nearly every penny spent made their way into the meticulously detailed writings of two Eau Claire women.
Journals, scrapbooks and collections documented the lives of Avis and Melba Baehr, sisters who spent their careers working in the Uniroyal (formerly Gillette) tire factory that employed much of Eau Claire during the 20th century.
This really was a big part of their lives – keeping records, said author Jack Zais, 72, of Lake Hallie. They loved doing it.
After a local antique dealer saved the womens belongings from the garbage, Zais read through their material and edited it for his latest book, Diaries of Tire Plant Sisters.
At 379 pages, Zais estimates the book only covers about a hundredth of the material the Baehrs kept on their lives. For his book, he consulted 70 of their journals and 20 scrapbooks, but suspected there was much, much more out there.
They were fascinating girls, Zais said.
Avis died at age 80 in December 1995 and Melba died in February 2010 at age 96. The sisters never married or had children and their estate – valued at millions of dollars – went to distant relatives.
After their heirs didnt want much from the familys house, their attorney contacted Hugh Passow in summer 2010 to see if he wanted any of the sisters belongings.
Before I got there a Dumpster and a half got thrown out, said the owner of Antique Emporium, 317 S. Barstow St.
Aside from the written material, Passow bought a box with 1,000 cloth handkerchiefs, the Baehrs collection of knickknacks from annual vacations and 2,000 napkins from restaurants the sisters ate at.
While Passow said the stockpiles of items indicate the Baehrs were hoarders, there also was a high degree of order in their collections.
They put a note inside everything they owned, saying typically when they bought it, he said.
The sisters were extremely meticulous. Their books included paper notes listing the last time each was read. They kept scrapbooks tracking the clothing they bought that included swatches of fabric from dresses. The Baehrs also enjoyed collecting rocks and fossils, some of which Passow now owns.
While none of the items in the house were antique treasures, Passow found the collection to be extremely interesting.
It was all nickel and dime stuff, but there were a lot of nickels and dimes, he said. It was one of the more fun estates Ive ever bought.
One day Zais was browsing in the antique store and Passow – aware of the local authors interest in tire plant history – showed him the Baehrs collection.
It painted a picture of two very hard-working and frugal women.
Each sister worked for about 40 years – from the late 1930s until they retired in 1977 – on manufacturing lines at the tire plant.
When they werent making tires, the Baehrs picked beans for extra cash, collected bottles to get deposit money and searched for spare change on their walk to work.
To find money, no matter how little, always gives me a thrilling feeling such as nothing else quite duplicates, Avis wrote at age 33.
The sisters frequently wrote about store specials and giveaways and rarely bought something expensive. One notable exception was when Melba bought a $100 fur coat in 1939 after spending two years pining for one.
The women were Republicans – a bit of a rarity at the plant of laborers – and photos of GOP presidents are scattered throughout their scrapbooks. In their leisure time they followed boxing and saw almost every movie that came to Eau Claire theaters.
They would get upset if they missed a movie, Zais said.
Travel also factored into their budgets, with every diner meal, souvenir and drop of gas calculated to the penny. The sisters visited all 50 US states plus Cuba.
The women also kept records at work. They tracked their weekly earnings and how many products went through their lines.
Hired as a machinist at Uniroyal, Zais did an assortment of jobs during his 25-year career there served as union president from 1987 to 89.
Since retiring in `92 when the plant closed, Zais collected factory history with the order and meticulousness that the Baehr sisters probably would have admired.
During his research, Zais created a database with 17,410 names of former plant employees. Hes turned records into 5,466 individual files, which are stored in 10 file cabinets split between his home office and garage.
Zais hobby has yielded eight books with another in the works. The authors next project is to create a comprehensive history of the Eau Claire tire plant from its opening in 1916 to its closure in 1992.
The next book is going to be the key book, Zais said.